Citations:provocatrix


 * 1964, Mary Francis McDonald (translator), (author), The Divine Institutes, Books I–VII,  (2008 paperback reprint), ISBN 9780813215679 (13), book VI: “On True Worship”, page 446:
 * But if you place against wickedness patience, and nothing truer can be found than this virtue, nothing worthier of man, it will be straightway extinguished, just as if you were to throw water on fire. If, however, that provocatrix, iniquity, has found an impatience comparable to herself, just as though dripping with oil, she will enkindle such a great fire that, not only some river, but an effusion of blood must extinguish it.
 * 1986,  CVII, page 79:
 * In others, a wry intellectual or a tough esthete. In still others, an artist, a nude, a provocatrix. Some of the best show only her lean and shapely hands.
 * 1994, Jeanette Hoorn (editor), Strange Women: Essays in Art and Gender, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 0522845673 (10), ISBN 9780522845679 (13), page 128:
 * In Russell’s vision woman is both victim and provocatrix.
 * 2007, New York XL, unknown page, column 3:
 * Gossip hounds beeline to Barnes & Noble for free-verse provocatrix Rosie O’Donnell’s dishy Celebrity Detox.
 * 2008, Martial Kokroa Frindéthié, The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures, McFarland, ISBN 0786436638 (10), ISBN 9780786436637 (13), page 156:
 * These glosses only point to something that the narrator has already acknowledged as the essence of his indeterminacy, the transmutability that guarantees his multi-level subjectivities, a becoming-man, a Macha-man (Macha is the narrator’s female alter ego a provocatrix dominatrix), a dog-man.